From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 1 8:26:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-222.telepath.com [216.14.2.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7858437B422 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 08:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17895 invoked by uid 100); 1 Sep 2000 15:26:09 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14767.51857.465740.295504@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:26:09 -0500 (CDT) To: rob Cc: Johannes Zwart , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not XEmacs, after all? In-Reply-To: <39AF607C.811D6424@home.com> References: <14767.47786.569589.118725@guru.mired.org> <39AF607C.811D6424@home.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG rob writes: > After I saw the first post I checked out Xemacs. I have the latest > port, and it doesn't seem to render web pages very well at all. In > fact, I couldn't find a single one that looked right. What am I doing > wrong? At first guess, I'd say you're assuming there's such a thing as "looks right" for a web page. The rendering is controlled by the browser, not the author, and not all browsers render the same way that Netscape and MSIE do. At least some of the time, this has been because those two (which are both variants of NCSA Mosaic) were buggy and the others weren't. Properly written HTML will be readable in any browser if ugly in most of them. HTML written following current popular practices will be readable in the Mosaic browsers, and unreadable in other browsers. > I agree about Netscape. I am waiting for Mozilla with all of the > features for FreeBSD. I will check out w3m today. Rob. Be warned, it's *not* a GUI browser; it runs in an xterm. The pages will probably look less like what you expect than they do in Xemacs.